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The £15 computer and taking a piece of the Raspberry Pi

We at CHWD central are very excited about the Raspberry Pi, a barebones PC which will retail for about £15.  For those who aren't aware, bet there are a few who, why and how's?

Raspberry Pi

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Data and interface: nothing more is required for the future.

Having one of my usual idle moments, I considered the future of the internet and which way it is going.  And I came up with this.  There will be two things - data and interface.

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Optimising website loading times - 5 minutes with Apache

I've come across a couple of very cool tips to decrease the loading time of webpages to the browser using Apache 2.  They only take a few minutes to do and make your pages up to 50% quicker to load, which is never a bad thing.  They also decrease the traffic between your users and your server.

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Putting the Internet and RSS Feeds to good use - some amusing websites

These are some of the sites I subscribe to via RSS feeds - they are the sort of thing I find amusing.  Bit of light relief from heavy code.

Adding the Facebook "Like" button to any web page

Facebook has very kindly provided web developers with a simple code to insert into any page, which will allow anyone logged into facebook to 'like' a page.

Instructions are here:

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like

So if you "like" this - please click the "like" icon above. Go on ;) It won't help put food on the table, but it will help to demonstrate the usefulness of this piece of technology.

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